Peperomia humilis A.Dietr.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro & collaborators. 1996. Flora of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 78: 1-581.
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Family
Piperaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Terrestrial erect or prostrate herb, 10-20 cm long; stems simple or branched from base, purplish or pinkish, pilose, rooting at nodes. Leaves opposite or ternate at the base of inflorescence; blades 1-5 x 0.6-2.3 cm, obovate to obovate-elliptic, membranous, glandular-dotted, densely pilose, 3-nerved, the apex rounded, obtuse, or acute, the base cuneate, the margins entire and ciliate; petioles slender, 4-20 mm long, pilose. Flowers with pilose peduncle, in terminal, slender, loosely flowered spikes, 4-14 cm long. Drupe ellipsoid-ovoid, black, glandular-papillose, ca. 0.5 mm long.
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Distribution
In shaded areas and disturbed open roadsides. Road to Ajax Peak (A2657), Center Line Road by km 5.6 (A2418), White Cliffs (A2709). Also on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and Tortola; in Florida, Central America, the Greater and Lesser Antilles.
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